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Returns to experience across tasks: evidence from Brazil

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  • Gustavo Gonzaga
  • Tomás Guanziroli

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Using a rich Brazilian panel dataset and an occupation-task mapping, we investigate whether returns to experience depend on the types of jobs performed by workers. We find that returns to experience in non-routine tasks, especially returns to analytical tasks, are much larger than returns to routine tasks. This gap increases with schooling, suggesting that schooling and non-routine tasks are complementary in the human capital production function. These are important findings for developing countries similar to Brazil, where approximately 70% of workers’ tasks are routine.

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  • Gustavo Gonzaga & Tomás Guanziroli, 2019. "Returns to experience across tasks: evidence from Brazil," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(20), pages 1718-1723, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:26:y:2019:i:20:p:1718-1723
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2019.1593927
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    1. Machado, Cecilia & Neto, Valdemar & Szerman, Christiane, 2023. "Firm and Worker Responses to Extensions in Paid Maternity Leave," IZA Discussion Papers 16555, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    2. Arellano-Bover, Jaime & Saltiel, Fernando, 2021. "Differences in On-the-Job Learning across Firms," IZA Discussion Papers 14473, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    3. Cecilia Machado & Valdemar Neto & Christiane Szerman, 2023. "Firm and Worker Responses to Extensions in Paid Maternity Leave," CESifo Working Paper Series 10736, CESifo.

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